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  1. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    We clearly need a ricochet live chat for the ceremonies

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  2. Annefy Member
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    @Annefy

    Absolutely lovely news! 

    And a yes to the live chat; I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …

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  3. Arahant Member
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    ToryWarWriter (View Comment):

    We clearly need a ricochet live chat for the ceremonies

    It’s there when you need it:

    http://ricochet.com/live-chat/

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  4. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    Gonna be fun watching UK celebrities melt down over this. Capt. Picard is gonna be so upset!

     

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  5. Guruforhire Inactive
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    about time.

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  6. Annefy Member
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    @Annefy

    Son #2 is home today – I just interrupted his … whatever. I never know what he’s doing.

    Anyway, his first response was that the Queen must be so happy after dealing with all her family nonsense.

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  7. Unsk Member
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    @Unsk

    Congrats Brits! However the latest scuttlebutt from the EU is that they are preparing a very punitive  and very stupid exit deal – really stupid for they need the Brits more than the Brits need the EU.  Perhaps  the Donald will step in and beat the EU brass about the head and face in the  very bloody manner they fully deserve. 

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  8. Stad Coolidge
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    Annefy (View Comment):
    I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …

    Now, let’s see if you beat your own record!

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  9. Annefy Member
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    Stad (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):
    I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …

    Now, let’s see if you beat your own record!

    I do love a challenge …

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  10. Mark Camp Member
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    @MarkCamp

    It’s a rare opportunity for President Trump to initiate a positive change in the course of history that would be ranked with the free trade English triumph of the 1870s.  It could be done very quickly, perhaps even with a single executive order, given his current delegated powers over trade.

    I hope for the sake of the US, the UK, and the rest of the world that he takes it.

     

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  11. drlorentz Member
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    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though. The first step along that way is done but there’s one more to go next Wednesday. Just a formality, I suppose, but then so was the Queen’s Royal Assent.

    It ain’t over till the fat Europarliament sings.

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  12. Stad Coolidge
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    drlorentz (View Comment):

    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though. The first step along that way is done but there’s one more to go next Wednesday. Just a formality, I suppose, but then so was the Queen’s Royal Assent.

    It ain’t over till the fat Europarliament sings.

    I think Brussels is SOL on this one …

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  13. DrewInWisconsin, Oaf Member
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    drlorentz (View Comment):
    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though.

    That’s what I don’t understand.

    “We no longer want to be a part of your organization. We want to leave.”
    “Only if we let you.”

    What is this, the mob?

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  14. drlorentz Member
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    drlorentz (View Comment):
    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though.

    That’s what I don’t understand.

    “We no longer want to be a part of your organization. We want to leave.”
    “Only if we let you.”

    What is this, the mob?

    Yeah, pretty much.

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  15. Slow on the uptake Coolidge
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    drlorentz (View Comment):

    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though. The first step along that way is done but there’s one more to go next Wednesday. Just a formality, I suppose, but then so was the Queen’s Royal Assent.

    It ain’t over till the fat Europarliament sings.

    From the links you and @torywarwriter provided there are two more formalities to be accomplished prior to that:  Is it possible that the formal Parliamentary approval on the 29th could fall through?  What are the chances the EU rejects it? And if the EU doesn’t approve the deal – then what?

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  16. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

    drlorentz (View Comment):
    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though.

    That’s what I don’t understand.

    “We no longer want to be a part of your organization. We want to leave.”
    “Only if we let you.”

    What is this, the mob?

    Well according to Lincoln you couldnt just leave the club either

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  17. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    Slow on the uptake (View Comment):

    drlorentz (View Comment):

    Good news indeed. The Eurocrats still have to approve the deal, though. The first step along that way is done but there’s one more to go next Wednesday. Just a formality, I suppose, but then so was the Queen’s Royal Assent.

    It ain’t over till the fat Europarliament sings.

    From the links you and @torywarwriter provided there are two more formalities to be accomplished prior to that: Is it possible that the formal Parliamentary approval on the 29th could fall through? What are the chances the EU rejects it? And if the EU doesn’t approve the deal – then what?

    There is a hard deadline involved in the exiting process. Previous governments always got extensions on that but if both parties dont agree its a hard brexit on WTO terms.

     

    So if the EU fails to pass the vote…

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  18. Annefy Member
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):
    I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …

    Now, let’s see if you beat your own record!

    I do love a challenge …

    I just want to spend a moment re-living that night. It was June 23, 2016. I’d been working all day; I checked the #s before I drove home and figured it was a “no”.

    I got home, checked Ricochet. I believe @iWe had a post up that the numbers were getting close. Dinner was abandoned. A son was sent to the liquor store and I spent the next however many hours in the live chat with a compulsive toggle to the live BBC numbers and didn’t stop (drinking and toggling) until the “yes” was over 50%.

    When it was all over, it was the first inkling that I had that “the times were a-changing”. That maybe there was some hope left.

    The ensuing meltdown from my crazy Scottish cousins on FB was the icing on the cake.

    November 8, 2016 was the perfect bookend.

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  19. DonG (skeptic) Coolidge
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    How fun, the UK will get their very own Independence Day holiday.    Happy 23rd of June!

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  20. drlorentz Member
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    Annefy (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Annefy (View Comment):
    I had a hangover that lasted two days after the Brexit vote live chat …

    Now, let’s see if you beat your own record!

    I do love a challenge …

    I just want to spend a moment re-living that night. It was June 23, 2016. I’d been working all day; I checked the #s before I drove home and figured it was a “no”.

    I got home, checked Ricochet. I believe @iWe had a post up that the numbers were getting close. Dinner was abandoned. A son was sent to the liquor store and I spent the next however many hours in the live chat with a compulsive toggle to the live BBC numbers and didn’t stop (drinking and toggling) until the “yes” was over 50%.

    When it was all over, it was the first inkling that I had that “the times were a-changing”. That maybe there was some hope left.

    The ensuing meltdown from my crazy Scottish cousins on FB was the icing on the cake.

    November 8, 2016 was the perfect bookend.

    I was watching the results from work, meeting people later at the brewery, expecting it to be a bummer. By the time I got there, the die was cast. It was a happy moment but my joy was eroded by the series of screw-ups that followed. Theresa May… really? And then she calls an election, only to lose seats. I’ll admit to enjoying her tears when she resigned. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

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  21. Stad Coolidge
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    DonG (skeptic) (View Comment):

    How fun, the UK will get their very own Independence Day holiday. Happy 23rd of June!

    They really ought to make it July 4th.  After all, they already celebrate it as “Rid of Those Troublesome Colonists Day” . . .

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  22. ToryWarWriter Coolidge
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    And the EU just sent there signed part over to Boris today.

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